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A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling,

Page load speed analysis

71/100

Good result

7

Successful tests

1

Failed test

First response

101 ms

Resources loaded

847 ms

Page rendered

256 ms

Total page load time

1.2 sec

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We analyzed Pewresearch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Page optimization

HTML

58.1 kB

Images

1.7 MB

Javascripts

99.3 kB

CSS

0 B

In fact, the total size of Pewresearch.org main page is 1.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

Original58.1 kB

After minification54.8 kB

After compression13.7 kB

HTML optimization

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 44.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Original1.7 MB

After optimization1.7 MB

Image optimization

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Pew Research images are well optimized though.

Original99.3 kB

After minification96.8 kB

After compression37.5 kB

JavaScript optimization

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 61.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Pewresearch.org, 14% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Pewsocialtrends.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (239 ms) belongs to the original domain Pewresearch.org.

Additional info on pewresearch.org

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pew Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

17

Javascripts

48

Images

4

CSS

69

All

Possible request optimization

1

Javascripts

41

Images

1

CSS

26

Optimized

43

All

Normal result

IP address

Pewresearch.org uses IP addresses which are currently shared with 19 other domains. The more sites share the same stack of IP addresses, the higher the host server’s workload is. It is strongly recommended that the host server should be changed or the hosting provider should be requested to give a different (separate) IP address for this domain.

Pewresearch.org has no SSL certificate. Web browsing can be safer with HTTPS connection, so we suggest that it should be obtained for this site.

Normal result

Visitor World Map

Country of origin for 71% of all visits is United States. It’s good for Pewresearch.org that their server is also located in United States, as that enables the majority of their visitors to benefit from a much faster page load time.

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pew Research. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks:

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pewresearch.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Pewresearch.org main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.